Dan Langille's Other Diary – Page 102 – He has another, more popular, diary. This one is more general.

Jul 10 2005

Are your PHP pages observing Last-Modified?

2 Comments / Open Source / By Dan Langille / July 10, 2005

I recently became interested in customizing some of the news feeds for FreshPorts. Specifically, I wanted to allow users to have a news feed for their watch list (that’s the list of software they want to track). The existing news feed is already the most popular item on the website. It accounts for over 13% of all my web traffic. I was concerned that if I created yet more news feeds, traffic would […]

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Jul 10 2005

Spammers are amazing

Leave a Comment / Mail / By Dan Langille / July 10, 2005

I suspect spammers are paying people to post messages to my forums in The FreeBSD Diary. I started blocking them by IP address, but I quickly bored of that. Then I started required people to register before posting. That stopped them.

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May 17 2005

BSDCan 2005

2 Comments / BSDCan, Conferences, Open Source / By Dan Langille / May 17, 2005

It has been nearly three months since my last post. Let me change that now. BSDCan 2005 was a roaring success. We had 197 people, up from 175 last year. We had lots of compliments, and hints of corporate sponsorship. People came from 15 different countries including 26 from outside North America. That’s pretty impressive. The Hyper-Threading Vulnerability talk was a great bonus. The story has been mentioned on many websites already. Planning

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Feb 28 2005

I am the DLT King

Leave a Comment / Backups, hardware / By Dan Langille / February 28, 2005

I am the DLT King. Over the past month or so, I’ve really gotten into DLT drives for doing backups. Within the next week or so, I should have my backups running smoothly on a DLT 7000. More, later.

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